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Meaning of hoatcín by Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez





Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

hoatcín
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It is one of the common names of a bird. Hoatzin and even hoatxin are also used. In Colombia it is also called chenchena, pava hedionda or serere. Water turkey, crested turkey or plume turkey. It is known in other countries as water turkey, shansho (pig), Its scientific name is Opisthocomus hoazin and belongs to the family Opisthocomidae (meaning with plume or tuft behind the head). The word of Nahuatl origin (huatzin), means pheasant.

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